TROUBLE IN THE ARK. (Written for the Children's Corner.)

Otago Witness, Issue 1500, 14 August 1880, Page 27

TROUBLE IN THE ARK. (Written for the Children's Corner.)

By Sheh, aged 13,

Old Noah got up in a polter one day, And pitched the teacup about the room ; Ho threw a bone at Japhet s head, Who, quick as lightning, seifced the broom. A regular fight was the next affair : Indignantly Noah seized his gun, Which hadn't been loaded for ninety years, And threatened to shoot his loving son. While yet the war raged furious, The other children (three in all), Werojiot a bit surprised to see The sugar-bowl break on the wall, * * * * % The fight was o'er ; old Noah sat Gasping for breath upon a chair, While one dear boy, beloved by all, Sat brushing sugar from his hair. The wicked son who had rebelled, Who'd been the cause of all this row, Whose father couldn't manage him, Sat calmly eating porridge now. The breakfast o'er, this wicked son, Who had been told ho must depart, Went off across the playroom floor, And caught his horse to make a start. Old Noah fearing ho would lose The only horse that would bo caxight, Went out to tranquillise his son With whom he had so lately fought. Just then the children, Nell and Kate, Came in to have a bit of pleasure, They locked poor Japhet in the ark, And left him to repent 1 at leisure.